A winters night
Jo Wooding 1970 (Auckland)
The leaves are gone
Just the evergreen
The most beautiful colours
Are now just a dream
The wind is bitter
The rain it stings
Icy gusts
Cant change these things
Snuggle up warm
Another blanket or two
No more jandals
Tis time for sock and shoe
Jacket outside
In rain or shine
A winters coat
Becomes your shrine
Don’t want to go out
Its snowing somewhere
Not on me
But I feel it in the air
Warm winter kisses
Cuddles with loved one
Laughing together
Ignoring cold and having fun
The fires lit
Another log goes on top
The dog on his mat
Turning his head to smell my chop
He knows there is a bone
A wee wink he gave
To remind me
The bone I must save
The cat at the door
Wants in then wants out
Argh make ya mind up
Before I start to shout
Dog lifts his head
As if to say
“I wasn’t letting you
In here to stay anyway
The noise of winter
On the window outside
Hear the wind whistles
As the rain starts to sideways glide
Grateful for a roof
And a nice warm bed
Somewhere to snuggle
And rest my head
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Submitted by joannew.10319 on April 20, 2021
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 950 |
Words | 201 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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